The Great Hunger
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Great Hunger
By (Author) Patrick Kavanagh
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
26th February 2018
22nd February 2018
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Poetry by individual poets
821.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
64
Width 111mm, Height 161mm, Spine 4mm
44g
Description
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'I have lived in important places, times When great events were decided . . .' By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.
Author Bio
Patrick Kavanagh was born in Inniskeen, County Monaghan, in 1904. His verse collections included Ploughman and Other Poems (1936), A Soul for Sale and Other Poems (1947) and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling (1960). He also wrote the novel Tarry Flynn (1948) and his autobiography The Green Fool (1938). He died in 1967.
